Articulações poéticas e políticas do corpo : estudo de processos de composição solística de dança contemporânea

Doutoramento em Motricidade Humana na especialidade de DançaO objetivo deste estudo foi analisar processos de composição solística de dança contemporânea efetivados por duas coreógrafas e duas bailarinas para o evento Solos de Dança no Sesc 2008. Compreendemos que tais processos são concretizados por corpos que articulam a rede de relações efetivada para a criação, enquanto, paralelamente, ocorrem suas próprias percepções e representações para a construção da obra. Para tal fim, desenvolvemos uma pesquisa qualitativa com orientação fenomenológica hermenêutica (Rezende, 1990), na qual construímos o fenômeno levando em consideração a relação entre som, imagem e texto (Bauer, Gaskell & Allum, 2008), três estruturas de informação que se referem a expectativas e à prática do processo das quatro artistas da dança. A análise interpretativa por triangulação (Gaskell & Bauer, 2008) permitiu-nos considerar a peculiaridade de cada um dos processos e dos corpos que deles participaram. Portanto, compreendemos suas percepções, gestos e representações, estabelecidos no contexto, de acordo com a cultura da qual participam (Becker, 1977), como fatores complementares e determinantes em suas formas de comunicar-se durante a construção de outras possíveis tradições e estéticas, danças e projetos artísticos (Arendt, 2008). Concluindo, observamos que, na mesma proporção, coreógrafos e intérpretes são responsáveis pelo perfil da obra, já que composta a partir das articulações poéticas e políticas dos corpos integrantes de cada projeto

Revealing Cultural Ecosystem Services through Instagram Images: The Potential of Social Media Volunteered Geographic Information for Urban Green Infrastructure Planning and Governance

With the prevalence of smartphones, new ways of engaging citizens and stakeholders in urban planning and governance are emerging. The technologies in smartphones allow citizens to act as sensors of their environment, producing and sharing rich spatial data useful for new types of collaborative governance set-ups. Data derived from Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) can support accessible, transparent, democratic, inclusive, and locally-based governance situations of interest to planners, citizens, politicians, and scientists. However, there are still uncertainties about how to actually conduct this in practice. This study explores how social media VGI can be used to document spatial tendencies regarding citizens’ uses and perceptions of urban nature with relevance for urban green space governance. Via the hashtag #sharingcph, created by the City of Copenhagen in 2014, VGI data consisting of geo-referenced images were collected from Instagram, categorised according to their content and analysed according to their spatial distribution patterns. The results show specific spatial distributions of the images and main hotspots. Many possibilities and much potential of using VGI for generating, sharing, visualising and communicating knowledge about citizens’ spatial uses and preferences exist, but as a tool to support scientific and democratic interaction, VGI data is challenged by practical, technical and ethical concerns. More research is needed in order to better understand the usefulness and application of this rich data source to governance

Creating a Geodesign syllabus for landscape architecture in Denmark

Geodesign provides a conceptual framework through which to understand relationships between geoscience and design. This  paper takes its point of departure from the merger of the Departments of Geography and Geology and Forest, Landscape and Planning at the University of Copenhagen, and the subsequent approach taken to Geodesign as a means to realise potentials within the new academic structure. The aim is to address specifically how an on-going process of transforming the Landscape Architecture program has begun to integrate GIScience in a new way that fosters integration within and between disciplines. The approach to Geodesign will therefore be discussed in terms of cross-disciplinary dialogue and curriculum development. Emphasis will be placed on the results of the Geodesign Conference held at UCPH in November 2014 at which practitioners and academics came together to present extensive experiences and understandings of Geodesign. The conference was also the forum for discussion of the challenges and opportunities offered by Geodesign in the context of teaching

Regularity in the research output of individual scientists: An empirical analysis by recent bibliometric tools

This paper proposes an empirical analysis of several scientists based on their time regularity, defined as the ability of generating an active and stable research output over time, in terms of both quantity/publications and impact/citations. In particular, we empirically analyse three recent bibliometric tools to perform qualitative/quantitative evaluations under the new perspective of regularity. These tools are respectively (1) the PY/CY diagram, (2) the publication/citation Ferrers diagram and triad indicators, and (3) a year-by-year comparison of the scientists' output (Borda's ranking). Results of the regularity analysis are then compared with those obtained under the classical perspective of overall production. The proposed evaluation tools can be applied to competitive examinations for research position/promotion, as complementary instruments to the commonly adopted bibliometric technique

Recent ASA presidents and ‘top’ journals: observed publication patterns, alleged cartels and varying careers

It has been common for studies presented as about American sociology as a whole to rely on data compiled from leading journals (American Sociological Review [ASR] and American Journal of Sociology [AJS]), or about presidents of the American Sociological Association [ASA], to represent it. Clearly those are important, but neither can be regarded as providing a representative sample of American sociology. Recently, Stephen Turner has suggested that dominance in the ASA rests with a ‘cartel’ initially formed in graduate school, and that it favors work in a style associated with the leading journals. The adequacy of these ideas is examined in the light of available data on the last 20 years, which show that very few of the presidents were in the same graduate schools at the same time. All presidents have had distinguished academic records, but it is shown that their publication strategies have varied considerably. Some have had no ASR publications except their presidential addresses, while books and large numbers of other journals not normally mentioned in this context have figured in their contributions, as well as being more prominent in citations. It seems clear that articles in the leading journals have not been as closely tied to prestigious careers as has sometimes been suggested, and that if there is a cartel it has not included all the presidents